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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, said it best nearly seven decades ago: “In our efforts to provide security for all American people, let us not allow ourselves to be misled by those who advocate shortcuts to Utopia or fantastic financial schemes.” That was true then. It is true today. In this age of insecurity, Americans of all ages need to know that they can always count on Social Security, both today and in the future...
...Jack is dying, and he decides that Rose, 16, needs a family to wean her from the isolation that has nurtured her. He invites his sometime lover Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two teenage sons to come live with them. The place was never quite Utopia, but it will soon become hell...
...what did the granddaddy of left-wing ideology, Karl Marx have to say on this issue? In his communist utopia, man could “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon [and] rear cattle in the evening.” Sounds like a pretty darn good life to me, and something tells me they wouldn’t be hunting tofu...
...would be impossible for every student to be thoroughly engaged in each and every one of his or her classes. Nonetheless, total academic stimulation should be the University’s goal. Call me an idealist—or call me a nerd—but in my academic utopia, no student should ever be able to say: “I don’t care about my classes. I just want to graduate and get a job.” Ideally, English majors should cry in ecstasy with every reading of Keats; physics majors should orgasm with every...
...architects? They all think they're specialists in the future. There may be no professionals?outside of absolute dictators?so prone to the commanding vision or the impulse to usher daily life into new arrangements. Ambitious architects are always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing project...